Re:The 20-Hour Flight Is Coming, and It May Have a Gym and B...
by isostatic on Friday August 31, 2018 @03:05AM
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I was rerouted and downgraded to a KLM economy flight overnight last year, on an old 747. Same problem with the seat.
The solution is easy, don't fly in economy.
Re:The 20-Hour Flight Is Coming, and It May Have a Gym and B...
by dagw on Friday August 31, 2018 @05:29AM
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The solution is easy, don't fly in economy.
Bloody poor people. They should be happy we let them our airplanes at all.
Re:The 20-Hour Flight Is Coming, and It May Have a Gym and B...
by isostatic on Saturday September 01, 2018 @07:28AM
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$400 is an annual wage for much of the world. if you can fly in a plane you are rich, it's just a question of how rich you are.
In the 1970s a transatlantic return was about $3000 in today's money. You can get a business class bed for that now. If you could afford to travel in economy in 1970, you can do it in business today, and business today is far above first class in those days.
If you work for a company that insists on flying you in economy and you don't like it, it's time to move job.
Re:The 20-Hour Flight Is Coming, and It May Have a Gym and B...
by Cthulhu_ on Friday August 31, 2018 @05:26AM
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Not-economy is often twice as expensive though. If it's for leisure then sure, you could opt to go somewhere else or keep saving for a more expensive flight, but if it's for business your employer probably doesn't want to spend twice as much.
Re:The 20-Hour Flight Is Coming, and It May Have a Gym and B...
by dagw on Friday August 31, 2018 @05:30AM
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Not-economy is often twice as expensive though.
For short haul and domestic flights. For trans-atlantic flights it's often 3-5 times as expensive.
If the person behind me puts the provided a water bottle in the seat pocket in front of them, as they do almost every flight, it pokes, pushes, and rubs my back enough that I wake up.